Clear DefinitionsNoise Dampening
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Pronunciation
[noyz dam-puh-ning]
Analogy
Like using a noise gate on audio equipment to mute background hiss and only let meaningful sounds through.
Definition
Techniques applied to reduce irrelevant or low‑value data (noise) in blockchain analytics, monitoring, or alerting systems to improve signal clarity and reduce false positives. Noise dampening filters repetitive, benign events and aggregates minor fluctuations.
Key Points Intro
Noise dampening sharpens focus on important events by filtering out routine background activity.
Key Points
Thresholding: Only alert on metrics exceeding set limits.
Aggregation: Group similar events into summary notifications.
Rate limiting: Suppress repeated alerts within time windows.
Anomaly smoothing: Apply moving averages to reduce jitter.
Example
A monitoring system suppresses node CPU usage alerts until usage remains above 80% for five minutes, avoiding alerts on brief spikes.
Technical Deep Dive
Implement with Prometheus recording rules: use `increase()` and `avg_over_time()` to compute sustained conditions. Alertmanager configures `group_interval` and `repeat_interval` to batch similar alerts.
Caveat
Over-aggressive filtering can hide genuine issues; tune parameters carefully.
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